Sununu and his wife, Catherine ("Kitty"), have three children:
John, (Catherine) Grace, and Charlotte.

Career after
Senate

Sununu currently sits on the Board of Managers of ConvergEx
Holdings, a holding company for BNY ConvergEx Group, an affiliate
of Bank of New
York Mellon, which holds a 33.8 percent stake in BNY ConvergEx
Group.[4]. These
days, he is often seen in the hallways of Saint
Anselm College's New Hampshire Institute of Politics.

Sununu was appointed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
to serve on the Congressional Oversight Panel (COP) for the Troubled Asset Relief
Program funds, whose purpose is to assessing how the TARP
program is working, in order to help Congress determine whether to
continue injecting capital into the financial sector.[5]

Elected
offices

In 2002, Sununu ran for a United States Senate seat from New
Hampshire. He defeated the Republican incumbent Bob Smith in
the primary, then defeated Governor Jeanne Shaheen in the general election
by a margin of 51%–46%.

United States House of
Representatives

In 1999, NH's Christian Coalition gave "pro-family" awards to
both NH Representatives, Sununu and Charles Bass, honoring the vote by both
men to impeach President Bill Clinton.[6
]

On November 8, 2000, the Boston Globe noted Sununu's
defeat of Democratic newcomer Martha Fuller Clark, noting that
Sununu had "one of the House's most conservative voting
records"—opposing abortion and increased minimum wages while
favoring school vouchers and the death penalty.[7]

In 2001, The New York Times described Sununu as a
likely contender for the Senate seat then held by NH's Robert C.
Smith, calling Sununu "a three-term conservative considered to
be on the fast track in the House." The article noted that Sununu's
backers included "some of the biggest Republican names in New
Hampshire" as well as small government advocate Grover
Norquist.[8]

United
States Senate

According to a Washington
Post study, Sununu voted with the Republican Party's
position 84% of the time. However, he broke with his party on
prominent issues, joining Democrats in filibusters of the USA PATRIOT
Act[9] and the
Bush Administration's 2003 energy bill.[10] Sununu
strongly supported greater access to firearms, voting against the
proposed renewal of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban
in 2004. He strongly opposed amnesty for illegal aliens, voting
against the McCain-Kennedy immigration bill in July 2007. Sununu
called for a tougher federal regulator for government sponsored enterprisesFannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and with
Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD), he filed a
dramatic overhaul of regulation of the insurance industry.[11]
A long proponent of technology, in January 2007, Sununu called for
a permanent ban on taxes of Internet connections and online
sales.[11]

P. J.
O'Rourke wrote a tribute to Sununu, calling him a philosopher
and suggesting that he was the smartest man in the Senate.[12]
Sununu was one of only three senators whose voting record received
a score of 100% from the fiscally conservative Club for
Growth, which in February 2007 endorsed his bid for
re-election.[13]

In 2007, Sununu was the lead Republican co-sponsor of the Clean
Air Planning Act of 2007 which sought to address air quality and
climate change by establishing a schedule to reduce harmful
emissions from power plants—in particular, sulfur dioxide and
nitrogen oxides—as well as decrease carbon dioxide emissions
through a cap-and-trade system. The legislation, which was never
enacted, also addressed mercury pollution, calling for a 90%
reduction in emissions of the chemical by 2015.[14] He
also supported the bipartisan Clean Energy Stimulus Act of 2008
that provides tax incentives for the development of clean and
renewable energy sources.[15] In
2006 Sununu sponsored the bipartisan New England Wilderness Act
which added tens of thousand of acres of land to federally
protected forests.[16]
Sununu opposed the Climate Stewardship Act of 2003, which would
have also created a cap-and-trade program. His vote was criticized
by the New Hampshire Democratic Party which claimed that he had
acted "against reducing greenhouse gases". The New Hampshire Union
Leader praised his decision, citing the Energy Information
Agency's estimation that the legislation would cost the American
economy $507 billion over 22 years.[17]

Sununu took a few positions contrary to the Bush administration
and the Republican leadership. Though he voted for the flag burning amendment, he voted against
the Federal Marriage Amendment
and he opposed restrictions on
travel and trade with Cuba, and
was one of only two Republicans to vote in favor of terminating
funds for TV Martí,
which broadcasts anti-Castro programming in Cuba. He was one of a
small group of Republicans to vote in favor of banning loans to
China for any nuclear projects, and in September 2005 he voted to
disapprove a new rule set in place by the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) delisting coal and other energy sources
from the Clean Air
Act.

He also became well known as one of the five Republican Senators
who joined Democrats in a filibuster of the USA PATRIOT Act renewal conference
report. This caused the Republican leadership to extend the
original legislation until a compromise bill was forged.

In January 2006, at a hearing in front of the Commerce, Science
and Transportation Committee on the Broadcast Flag,
Sununu was one of the very few present to criticize the
legislation, saying "In all cases [of previous technological
advancements in the US], we didn't need to step in with a
significant statutory government-regulated mandate on technology
that consumers use to enjoy this material".[18]

On March 14, 2007, Sununu became the first Republican senator to
call for the resignation of Attorney GeneralAlberto
Gonzales after a controversy
over U.S. Attorney firings. Sununu
cited his anger with the mismanagement by Gonzales and the lack of
trustworthiness by GOP Senators towards Gonzales.[20]

In September 2008, Sununu became one of twenty senators (ten
Democrats and ten Republicans) co-sponsoring a bipartisan energy bill, the New Energy Reform Act of
2008. The bill is offered as an alternative to the Democrats'
energy bill, sponsored by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Both bills propose to
increase offshore drilling, while promoting
conservation and alternative energy. The "Gang of Twenty" bill also
lets coastal states participate in decisions and in revenue about
drilling in the fifty-to-one-hundred-mile range off their coasts.
It also differs from the Democrats' bill in allowing drilling off
Florida's west coast, a proposal both Florida's senators have
protested. To quote the Minneapolis
Star Tribune, "Nearly every potentially vulnerable Senate
Republican, from Norm
Coleman [of Minnesota] to Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina and
John Sununu of New Hampshire, has signed on to the
legislation."[22]

From Wikiquote

Sourced

I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as
follows: When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of
the market. That is the economic reality that seems, at least so
far, to be missing from this discussion."

This may be the most bizarre recommendation, but I am sincere.
I'm not saying it's not an issue or it's not important, but
proportionally speaking, stop complaining about health care...if
there was something that we could do about it that were quick or
easy, it would be done...There is no solution.

In all cases [of previous technological advancements in the
US], we didn't need to step in with a significant statutory
government-regulated mandate on technology that consumers use to
enjoy this material,

I don't know of a case where we were discussing such a
dramatic step where the federal government will legislatively
mandate a specific type of technology to be incorporated in all of
this material. Maybe the sky really is falling this time, but I
think it is worth suggesting a little bit of skepticism, it's worth
offering up a little doubt before we not just entertain this, but
jump ahead to what exemptions were required.

The very technologies that some seem to be afraid of are
driving innovation, and driving creativity as we sit here today. In
fact, we have an unprecedented wave of creativity and product
development and content development... I think the history of
government mandates... is that it always, always restricts
innovation. Why would we think this one special time... it will
actually encourage innovation?[1]